Chapter 2771 — Can't Shake Him Off
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Of all the thirty-six stratagems, running away was the best. The instant the man drew near, Wei Zhao sprang to his feet and bolted. He could not spare a thought for his car—so long as the green hills remained, there would be no shortage of firewood. If he died, the natural treasures and Heaven-rank weapons in that car would end up in someone else's pocket anyway. So Wei Zhao did not hesitate for a moment; he simply ran.
The man in black was taken aback to see Wei Zhao suddenly leap up and flee, but he did not hesitate. Without so much as a glance at the two corpses on the ground or Wei Zhao's car, he gave chase!
His mission was to kill Wei Zhao. As for what was in Wei Zhao's car, he neither knew nor cared. And the corpses—this was desolate wilderness; no one would pass by. He could come back to collect his comrades' bodies after finishing Wei Zhao.
Wei Zhao dared not slacken. A late Heaven-rank expert! Though his Butterfly Micro-Step qinggong gave him an edge in speed, he dared not grow arrogant—who was to say whether this newcomer also knew qinggong?
If he did—even a clumsy, third-rate version like Yu Xiaoke's—then he was finished. A late Heaven-rank expert was in a different weight class from him in terms of physical strength and true qi. If Wei Zhao could not shake the man behind him, sooner or later his strength would give out, he would stop, and he would be killed.
"Aah—" At that moment Wei Zhao erupted. He had no choice but to erupt. He wished he could turn into a Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast, running forward with all his might.
After about ten minutes of running, Wei Zhao felt he must have shaken off his pursuer by now. He had seen the Rock Candy Girl's qinggong for himself—at his current speed, even the Rock Candy Girl probably could not catch him!
But when Wei Zhao looked back, he got the shock of his life! The man in black was still behind him. True, the distance was unchanged—he had not closed in; if anything, he had fallen a little farther back. But that was the result of Wei Zhao's burst of speed, and Wei Zhao could not stay in a burst state forever. So the gap had widened a little—hardly cause for celebration, since the man in black would easily make up that small difference!
What truly unnerved Wei Zhao, of course, was this: how could the man in black run so fast? He was using the Butterfly Micro-Step qinggong—in theory, the other man should not have been able to keep up at all. Yet he had not been shaken off. Something was deeply strange about this!
Wei Zhao was certain the man must have some secret technique. Otherwise, normally, facing a late Heaven-rank expert, even if he could not win, he should at least be able to barely escape. But now this man seemed to match his speed exactly—he could not shake him off.
But there was nothing Wei Zhao could do. Never mind how the man had caught up—Wei Zhao could only run with all his might. Feeling his physical strength and true qi slowly draining away, he grew anxious in secret. Though he was not unleashing any martial technique, sustaining qinggong at such high intensity for so long was itself an extremely draining affair!